Dorie Forte & Froelich: 2012 Equiery Perpetual Dressage Award Winner
causing the atrophy. Jim Yanchunis, a local veterinarian and acupuncture expert, played a crucial role in helping Dorie’s eff orts. To almost everyone’s surprise, within six months of the original damage, the muscle and nerve had fully healed with no signs of visible atrophy. Finally after a long,
patient, and
expensive wait, Dorie and Fro could compete again.
Continuing Success
Dorie competing Froelich at the 2006 Young Horse Championships in Kentucky
for his recovery period, but they ended up staying for good. “She truly is a godsend. I don’t know what I would have done without her,” said Dorie. But troubled times were not fi nished for
Dorie and Fro. Within the next six months, distinct muscle atrophy became recognizable in Fro’s pectoral muscles. T is time, Dorie decided to haul Fro to Dr. Kent Allen’s
Virginia
Equine Imaging center just outside Middleburg, VA to diagnose the problem and see what could be done.
T e pair has now earned their Bronze and Silver USDF medals and are working towards their Gold. “It makes me work,” Dorie commented when explaining how diffi cult getting her Gold medal will be. With successful outings at Intermediaire I and eventually up through Grand Prix, Dorie continues to help Fro get to the top. At an early outing this spring,
After
hours of thorough testing, there was little hope that Fro’s muscle would ever regenerate, keeping him out of upper level competition. But once again, with the help of her incredible team, Dorie worked tirelessly night and day trying to stimulate the muscle in an eff ort to regenerate the damaged nerve
Dorie and Froelich warming up for a Third Level test
Dorie surprised herself by scoring a 69% on one of their fi rst runs at the Intermediaire I level. She recalled, “T at was a moment!” And a well-deserved one at that, considering the tremendous hours of hard work and dedication Dorie has poured into keeping Fro in tip- top form, while working an incredibly demanding full- time job. T e duo is already qualifi ed for the 2013 BLMs
and the USDF Region I Championships. PVDA’s Loch Moy show in September will be their fi rst outing for the fall competition season. With one qualifying score under her
belt, Dorie is more driven than ever to obtain her Gold Medal. Being recognized by T e Equiery for the 2012
Perpetual Dressage Award was something Dorie had been working towards all season. “I was very excited because it was something that I wanted. It is really tough to meet the show requirements but I wanted it, so I went for it,” she said. It is important
Dorie with her husband Frank Forte and sister Cindy Trapp
to recognize the commitment Dorie has made to the sport of dressage but also to the team she has built around her. “It’s hard, but if you want
it, you have to fi gure it out. You have to put a great team around yourself because that’s what matters,” she said. Her husband Frank has been Dorie’s rock during this entire process. “I am the luckiest lady in the world. He is so supportive of Fro and me. He understands the level of commitment I have to make to go where I want to go and be successful there.” Dorie also mentioned friend Jennifer Tingely as part of Team Fro. She added,
“My parents
In what little spare time she has, Dorie enjoys Flyball Tournaments (pictured here with Shari Glickman’s dog Samba)
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